About The Role What if your Python expertise could directly shape the infrastructure behind the world's most advanced AI systems? We're looking for a Senior Python Full-Stack Engineer to build and optimize the data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems that leading AI labs depend on to train and improve next-generation models. This is a fully remote contract role with meaningful technical challenges, flexible hours, and the opportunity to work on production systems that sit at the frontier of AI development.

• Organization: Alignerr
• Type: Hourly Contract
• Location: Remote
• Commitment: 20–40 hours/week

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance Python systems supporting large-scale AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows
• Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for data annotation, validation, and quality control at scale
• Improve the reliability, performance, and safety of existing Python codebases
• Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation infrastructure
• Identify bottlenecks and edge cases in data and system behavior — then implement scalable, production-ready fixes
• Participate in synchronous design reviews to iterate on architecture and implementation decisions

Who You Are

• Native or fluent English speaker with clear written and verbal communication skills
• Full-stack developer with a strong systems programming background
• 5+ years of professional experience writing production-grade Python
• Deep understanding of performance optimization and concurrency — asyncio, multiprocessing, threading
• Comfortable with type safety tooling such as Pydantic and mypy
• Experienced building robust backend services (FastAPI, Django, or similar) or scalable data pipelines
• Able to commit 20–40 hours per week with consistency

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with data annotation, data quality pipelines, or evaluation systems
• Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, model training, or benchmarking infrastructure
• Experience with distributed systems or developer tooling
• Background working alongside research or applied ML teams

Why Join Us

• Work directly on production AI infrastructure used by leading research labs
• Fully remote and flexible — work from anywhere on a schedule that suits you
• Freelance autonomy paired with technically meaningful, high-impact work
• Collaborate with sharp engineers and researchers at the cutting edge of AI
• Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as projects evolve and expand